MODULE 2: Azure Identity & Access Management (IAM)

🔥 MODULE 2: Azure Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Identity Is the Control Plane of Cloud Security

In cloud environments, identity decides everything.
Firewalls don’t decide who can create resources.
Encryption doesn’t decide who can read data.
Antivirus doesn’t decide who can delete workloads.

👉 Identity does.

This module takes you deep into Azure Identity & Access Management, explaining why identity is the foundation of cloud security and why most real-world Azure breaches begin with IAM misconfigurations — not exploits

🔐 What You Will Learn in This Module

✔ Why Identity Exists & Why It Replaced the Perimeter
Understand how cloud removed physical access, fixed networks, and permanent servers — and replaced them with identity-based decisions.

✔ IAM Explained From First Principles
Learn what identity really means, what access really means, and how Azure decides who can do what, when, and why.

✔ Why Identity Is the Most Powerful Security Control in Azure
Every action — VM creation, storage access, deployments, secret rotation, log access — is approved or denied by identity first.

✔ Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Deep Understanding
What Entra ID is, what it does, and what it does NOT do.
Understand tenants, isolation boundaries, and why tenant compromise equals total cloud compromise.

✔ Azure Identity Types & Their Risks

User identities (humans)

Groups (authorisation containers)

Directory roles (identity control roles)

Service principals (application identities)

Learn how attackers abuse each one differently.

✔ Human Identity Attacks
Phishing, weak passwords, MFA fatigue, dormant accounts — and why humans remain the primary cloud attack surface.

✔ Groups & Directory Roles Explained Properly
Why nested groups hide permissions.
Why directory roles are more dangerous than subscription roles.
Why admin access must never be permanent.

✔ Service Principals — The Silent Backdoor
How application identities work, why attackers love them, and how long-lived secrets create invisible persistence.

✔ Authentication & Token Security
Login creates tokens, not sessions.
Anyone holding a valid token is trusted — until expiry.
Understand why token theft is so dangerous.

✔ Authorization & Azure RBAC
Why permission mistakes cause more breaches than vulnerabilities.
How attackers simply use excessive permissions instead of breaking security.

✔ Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Why permanent admin access is dangerous.
How Just-In-Time access limits blast radius and detects compromise.

✔ Conditional Access & Identity Protection
Risk-based access decisions.
Stopping attacks before access is granted.

✔ Workload Identity Federation
Secret-less authentication for CI/CD and external platforms like GitHub.
Reducing supply chain and secret leakage attacks.

✔ CIEM & Real Identity Attack Flows
See how attackers move from phishing → privilege escalation → persistence → data access — and how to stop them.

🎯 Who This Module Is For

Cloud Security Engineers
Azure Administrators
SOC Analysts & Blue Teamers
DevSecOps Engineers
Cloud Architects
Anyone serious about real Azure security

📌 This is Module 2 of the Master Cloud Security Program.
If you don’t master identity, you don’t control the cloud.

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